State of Illinois v. Sangamo Construction Co. And J. L. Simmons Company, Inc., Defendants

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting defendants’ argument that state is entitled only to actual cost of state-employed attorneys and upholding reasonable attorney’s fees based on lodestar figure
• “[R]ecovery of fees paid to expert witnesses is limited to the statutory costs specified in 28 U.S.C. § 1821.”
• “The underlying documents need not be introduced at trial in order for the cost of copying them to be recoverable.”
• “recovery of specific expenses pursuant to Section 4 of the Clayton Act [15 U.S.C. § 15] is governed by the recovery of costs under Rule 54(d) and 28 U.S.C. § 1920”
• windfall allowed when caused by plaintiff not paying prevailing market rate
• “The majority of courts interpreting the provision for witness fees in [§] 1920, including the Seventh Circuit, hold that recovery of fees paid to expert witnesses is limited to the statutory costs specified in 28 U.S.C. [§] 1821.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).